Western Fictioneers

By Kathleen Rice Adams Life on the open range could be a discomforting experience, what with outlaws popping out of the woodwork without ...

It’s late September and both the sun and the moon have taken on a rich golden cast. Tomato plants and bean vines turn to yellow skelet...

From Class and Race in the Frontier Army , by Kevin Adams The Civil War jumble society more than perhaps we are willing to admit. A n...

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In the summer of 1909, two young brothers under the age of ten set out to make their own “cowboy dreams” come true. They rode across two s...

On a warm August night in the mid-1970s, I happening to be standing in the midway of the Ohio State Fair talking with a plainclothes sta...

Trail Ride--Mexican Style by Gordon Rottman Houstonians are familiar with the 13 trail rides into Houston for the Livestock Show and ...

By Richard Prosch In 1990, an unlikely group of fiction writers, poets, visual artists, teachers, students and celebrities came tog...